A HARD WORKING WOMAN COMES HOME AFTER HER TIRING JOB

HER MOTHER-IN-LAW, HUSBAND AND HER SISTER-IN- LAW

WAITING FOR HER LIKE A MOB

THE MOMENT THAT SHE ALWAYS DREADS HAS COME.

HER HEART BEATS FASTER AS IT SENSES

IMPENDING DOOM.

HER HUSBAND'S FACE FURIOUS,

HER SISTER-IN LAW DEVIOUSLY CURIOUS

HER MOTHER-IN-LAW HAS A SUPERIOR LOOK ON HER FACE.

SHE ALWAYS POISONS HER SON'S MIND.

SHE PREPAERES HERSELF FOR THE SCREAMS AND SHOUTS

EMOTIONALLY BRUISED HER TEAR STREAKED FACE ASHEN. SHE KNOWS IN HER HEART THAT HER CHILDREN UNDERSTAND, BUT WHERE DOES SHE STAND?

HER BOSS IS A LECHER

EVEN THOUGH SHE IS THE BEST, HE PROMOTES SOMEONE ELSE

JUST BECAUSE HIS EGO CANT STAND HER REJECTION.

HER HUSBAND 'S PRIDE IS HURT

COZ SHE IS BETTER

HER MOTHER-IN LAW TORTURES HRE AS SHE FINDS NO OTHER,

 HER SISTER IS A TROUBLE MAKER AS SHE ISNT THAT EDUCATED OR CARED FOR.

OH DEAR GOD, THEY WERE GOOD SAMARITANS AT THE START

BUT BIG HYPOCRITES AT HEART !!

OH WOMAN WILL THIS SUFFERING FROM YOU NEVER DEPART????????

This POEM was written by one of my students named LASHIKA MEHTA when they were asked to perform a play on the theme Today's Samaritan Woman and though at first i was hesitant i felt i needed to blog this. The striking part was that when we portrayed the woman of yesteryear's and today's supposedly liberated " working woman" there wasn't much of a difference. Even today a woman still hasn't got her complete identity and liberation. I know this may not be acceptable to many of you but this does exist in many homes in India. We still have a long way to go! !! SIGH!!!